Snow Crash comes to (Second) Life

Posted on | August 11, 2006 | No Comments

3pointD reports: Rivers Run Red – the virtual agency responsible for Duran Duran’s recent live-performance in Second Life – in cooperation with publisher Penguin, is going to create a Second Life-sim dedicated to Neal Stephenson’s cyberpunk-novel Snow Crash. written 1988-1991, Snow Crash anticipated many aspects of virtual communities and even coined the term ‘metaverse’, which is now used in reference to the virtual world of Second Life. details about the sim are not yet disclosed, aside from releasing parts of snowcrash as in-game audiobook.

being an admirer of Stephenson’s books – stunned by the paralells between Second Life and the metaverse of Snow Crash since I logged in for the first time – I think it’s great that this finally comes full circle. unlike William Gibson (author of Neuromancer, and father of cyberpunk) Stephenson unfortunately doesn’t blog – but you may still want to visit his personal site or Metaweb, the company he’s involved with.

 

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